A century of scissors: one man's refusal to retire reveals something unexpected about work, purpose, and how we measure a life well-lived.
A British startup transformed millions of cups of coffee into premium fuel, creating a circular product that burned hotter than wood—until the model couldn't sustain itself.
Even after installing warnings, protective beams, and repeated repairs, trucks keep hitting a Melbourne rail bridge, suggesting driver negligence may not be the real problem.
The furniture industry designed sofas to last a lifetime—but engineered them to become landfill in an afternoon.
Fermi Explorer trades speed for feasibility: existing ion propulsion, a tiny payload and a coast lasting almost 80,000 years toward the outer reaches of Alpha Centauri.
A dog's fierce vigil over his dead master in the Patagonian wilderness became the only reason anyone ever found what was left to find.
When a century-old dream finally became engineering reality, a Norwegian town discovered that sometimes the solution to darkness is simply reflecting light back where it belongs.
A Chilean startup is transforming fashion's wasteland into building material, but the economics of recycling clash with the scale of the problem.
The discovery could finally let scientists test whether distant worlds can hang onto their atmospheres—or lose them to the stellar winds of their parent stars.
The Soviet probe that conquered Venus's hellish surface may have been undone by its own debris.
The 165,000-year shuttle comparison is sound arithmetic rather than a mission profile, while Starshot’s 20-year result depends on a gram-scale flyby probe, a metre-scale sail and an unbuilt Earth-based laser array.
Ocean microphones are catching glimpses of a species that remains nearly invisible to science, revealing how climate shapes the hidden movements of endangered whales.
A 2026 modelling study links East Antarctica’s high plateau to mantle processes begun during Jurassic breakup, while retaining falling carbon dioxide as the main trigger for glaciation.
A ten-year-old's casual question about her chemistry model kit led to a published paper describing a molecular structure that had eluded professional scientists for decades.
Four hippos abandoned in Colombia's jungle have multiplied into a crisis that authorities still don't know how to solve.
A power plant's waste heat became an accidental refuge for an endangered species—until the infrastructure that saves them in winter threatens to trap them in dependence.
